Microsoft lately has discovered that it can monetize Linux on Azure, which likely explains why it's getting more involved with Linux support issues. The company's new "Microsoft loves Linux" mantra, ...

After years of battling Linux as a competitive threat, Microsoft is now offering Linux-based operating systems on its Windows Azure cloud service.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, finally met in person at a friendly dinner.

Microsoft is peeling back the covers, at long last, of its Windows Azure spring update, with new Linux VM and hosting framework support.

While Azure's platform-as-a-service roles are non-persistent (applications should store data in one of the Azure storage systems instead), the new VMs are traditional, persistent machines.

Linux and Windows usually go-together like cats and dogs, but now four of the major Linux distributions - CentOS, openSUSE, SUSE Linux, and Ubuntu - are available on Microsoft's Azure cloud services.

Microsoft and IBM earlier this month announced the 'availability' of IBM WebSphere Application Server on Azure Linux-based virtual machines.

The upshot, they claim, is that customers face the devil's choice of migrating to Azure, or paying many times more to run their Windows and SQL Server-based apps on AWS or Google's cloud platform.

Microsoft has made Windows Azure IaaS and open-source friendly by adding support for Linux-based OS and added languages such as Python and PHP.

A security flaw found in Azure App Service, a Microsoft-managed platform for building and hosting web apps, led to the exposure of PHP, Node, Python, Ruby, or Java customer source code for at ...